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openSUSE 42.2: 2017:1872-1 Important QEMU DoS Exploits And Memory Leaks

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important update for qemu in openSUSE addressing 23 issues, including DoS and memory leak flaws.
An update that solves 23 vulnerabilities and has four fixes An update that solves 23 vulnerabilities and has four fixes An update that solves 23 vulnerabilities and has four fixes ...

Description

This update for qemu fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by leveraging an incorrect

return value (bsc#1042159).

- CVE-2017-8379: Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support

allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service

(host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events

(bsc#1037334).

- CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting

and stopping audio capture (bsc#1037242).

- CVE-2017-7493: The VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File

System(9pfs) support, was vulnerable to an improper access control

issue. It could occur while accessing virtfs metadata files in

mapped-file security mode. A guest user could have used this...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory access control DoS memory leak openSUSE qemu

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-822=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-arm-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-curl-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-dmg-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-iscsi-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-ssh-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-debugsource-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-extra-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-guest-agent-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-kvm-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-lang-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-linux-user-2.6.2-31.3.1

qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.1

qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.6.2-31.3.1

qemu-ppc-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-s390-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-testsuite-2.6.2-31.3.6

qemu-tools-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-x86-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.3.3

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

qemu-block-rbd-2.6.2-31.3.3

qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo-2.6.2-31....

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10028.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10029.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9602.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9603.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5579.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5973.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5987.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6505.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7377.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7471.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7493.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7718.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7980.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8086.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8112.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8309.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8379.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8380.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9330.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1872-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory access control DoS memory leak openSUSE qemu

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